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Feb. 3, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 3, 2014, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
We are here for yet another full week of broadcast excellence.
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I tell you, I thought they were going to have to drag Rupert Murdoch out of the stadium on a stretcher last night.
My God, can you believe how much audience they had to lose during that game in the second half?
Can you imagine how many make-goods or how much money they're going to have to be rebating to their sponsors because so many eyeballs?
Well, I'm guessing that there was a huge tune out in the second half because, man, folks, look, I have to be real careful here.
As you know, I'm a huge football fan, and I don't want to take anything away from the Seahawks because they, that grabs soundbite number two.
I want to remind you of my prediction early on on Friday on this program.
I'm going to play the prediction for you.
And by the way, the environmentalist wacko pick also came through with the Seahawks.
So whatever I'm going to say, I don't mean it as anything to take away from what the Seahawks accomplished or pulled off in the game last night.
But here's what I said early on.
First segment of the first hour of the program on Friday.
I'm leaning toward the Seahawks here for one reason.
Only one reason.
I think it has to do with the defense.
I think the Seattle defense could keep Peyton Manning off the field.
I think their defense, I've studied it, folks.
I've looked at tape.
And the Seattle defense has the ability to prevent Denver's long drives.
Time clock chewing drive.
The only thing I didn't foresee was all the turnovers.
But I knew the pass rush.
Denver, supposedly, they'd stared down a great pass rush from the Kansas City Chiefs twice during the season, but they had never seen what hit them last night.
But, you know, I, you know, during the game, Catherine looks over and says, you seem depressed.
And I said, I do.
I am.
I was down in the dumps.
I thought this whole game, the whole thing, every aspect, I thought was a bummer.
Look, I'm going to be very careful.
I don't mean to be, it's a game, it's national pastime, it's people's escape and so forth.
But man, I just, I thought there was so much mediocrity.
I thought the ads, maybe three ads, three or four ads were any good.
The rest of them were mediocre.
And this is, you know, I had spent all this time telling all of you to pay attention to the ads because advertising people have their finger on the pulse of our culture.
And if you really want to learn where we are as a country and so forth, make sure you watch the Super Bowl ads and they were a bomb.
Well, that's the thing.
It may not be wrong in terms of just the overall mediocrity.
Now, the Seahawks were not mediocre.
Again, I want to stress, I'm not trying to take anything.
I predicted the Seahawks to win.
So you've got to be real careful.
We got big audiences in Denver and Seattle as well here.
We own both towns.
And we have for many, many moons.
And so that's another reason.
I'm just telling you what I thought.
And I thought the game coverage was, it was just, I thought it was a, it was a bummer.
But the Super Bowl for the last game of the season, I think having it in New York, something about that, I don't think flew.
I just, for one of the, the championship game, the championship game in National Football League, that game did not at all put forth the best face of the National Football League.
It was just like one team didn't even show up.
And there I go.
I'm not trying to anger you people in Denver.
This is not a personal comment on anybody.
The MVP, nobody ever heard of the guy.
How do you pick an MVP in a game like that?
The MVP might have been Peyton Manning from the Seahawks perspective.
Just kidding.
Just to make a point.
You know, even the, and we've got audio soundbites here, the O'Reilly interview of Obama during the pregame show.
Now, folks, I'm going to tell you something.
I think that is the wrong venue to do a serious interview of the President of the United States.
O'Reilly actually asked really good questions that Obama hasn't been asked before.
But that's not the place people want to see that, particularly not on the network that's televising the game, not on the network televising the pregame show.
You're going to do an interview with the president.
It better be about the game.
It better be about football, Americana, this kind of stuff.
Because now, how many of you know what Obama said?
How many of you know how he answered the questions?
So now it can easily be said, okay, questions have been answered.
No big deal.
We can move on.
Nothing to see here.
Just another, in a sense, a wasted opportunity.
But there was no way it wasn't going to happen.
The only thing I'm surprised at, you know, O'Reilly was on Fox this morning giving his post-interview recap of how he thought it went.
He said, look, I think Obama's a great guy.
I think he's got a lot of heart.
I don't think he wants to hurt people like these right-wingers do.
I don't think Obama wants to hurt anybody.
I don't think Obama is trying to ruin anybody's life like these right-wingers.
The only thing that surprised me is Obama, that O'Reilly didn't tell Obama that in the interview, which I thought would happen.
But it happened, what, 12 hours later.
I really thought at one point during this game, I wondered if the parents of the Broncos players would try to invoke the mercy rule last night.
You know how parents of high school, when the team is getting ripped to shreds, the parents stand up and say, end it, end it.
This is humiliating.
This is embarrassing our children.
I wondered if the parents of Broncos players thought about trying to invoke the mercy rule.
I don't know, folks.
It was just, I don't know, it was a disappointing thing.
And the game, I guess you've answered the question now.
The number one offense rolls in facing a number one defense in a pass-happy National Football League where the rules changes over the recent years have been to favor the offense.
They have handcuffed the defense.
They have made it tougher and tougher with the safety rules and the hits trying to limit concussions.
They just made it tougher and tougher and tougher on defenses.
And yet last night, defense totally dominated with a pass rush.
It was total domination.
Peyton Manning didn't have more than a second and a half.
Why didn't he go deep?
He didn't have time to go 10 yards.
Well, he couldn't have thrown it.
He didn't have enough time for the receivers to get deep.
That pass rush was swarming, and those guys were hitting.
They were creaming.
That first little crossing pattern that was completed to Demarius Thomas, the defender, Cam Chancellor for the Seahawks, just knocked the guy 10 yards straight back.
And that was after the first snap of the game revolted into safety.
So it was a, I just, I was disappointed.
I'm dialing it back here, folks, in getting into detail with you.
Well, did I like Bruno Mars?
It turns out that might have been the highlight of the night, a halftime show.
I had never seen Bruno Mars before, and I've now only seen ⁇ I can't hear those shows.
I don't know, other than when he played the drums, I can't tell what's going on up there.
I have to read the captioning for some of the lyrics, but I can't hear melodies or any of this.
But it seemed exciting.
It seemed like those people had talent.
It seemed like those people were Corey Gripped.
It seemed like they knew what they were doing.
And they brought it there that evening, they got it all done in and out, 20 minutes.
They seemed like they were professionals.
Well, I just, let me.
Look, I'm really caught here because I want to unload, and that's just not the right thing to do here.
I mean, nobody wanted to screw up last night, and everybody was, I think, trying their best.
But I'm not just talking about the teams.
I'm just not talking about the game.
The whole thing to me was a this is not a super the injury reports.
What injury reports?
What do you mean?
What injury you mean pre-game injury?
Oh well, you know.
Oh yeah yeah, yeah.
Well, I can't say the number of times a player is hurt on the field and they have to come out, stop the game, go to a timeout and come back and timeout and never learn what happened to the Porsche club, in some cases, not even learn who it was.
Don't goad me.
You're in there goading me.
Snerdley, I is.
I unloaded Snurdly.
When I walked in the door I unloaded on.
Snerdley didn't even see the half the game he's flying back from from Washington, Washington, so he didn't even see it.
Let me take a break here, folks, because we got all kinds of stuff happening on the program today.
And I do want to tell that the Seahawks, I'm taking nothing away from them.
None.
Mm-hmm.
No, no, I'm not saying in the future defense is going to rule.
I'm just, in this case, the Broncos, when you're facing a pass rush like they were facing, it wasn't even, they weren't even blitzing him.
When you're facing a swarm, Peyton Manning had a pack of wasps on him all night.
And in football, the way you deal with that is screen passes, play action passes.
He didn't have time for any of that.
He didn't have time to make any adjustments even.
They couldn't go the short password, couldn't go screen, couldn't go play action, didn't have enough time for any of that to develop.
His pass rush was just over.
Well, they lost Noshan Marino early on with an injury, relatively early, and they were back to their backup, which is not a bad last name as Ball.
But they weren't able to do anything.
I'll tell you what.
Here's one of the great stats.
Peyton Manning set a record last night for completions in a Super Bowl game.
33.
In the first half, he had 54 yards.
Not on 33 completions.
That was for the game.
I think he ended up at 280 yards.
But more completions, but some of them were behind the line of scrimmage.
Some of them gain a couple, three yards here.
I don't know.
I also detected, I'm waiting, is there something wrong with his arm?
He looked like he was pushing the ball last night, not throwing it.
But nobody said anything about that.
So I probably was seeing things that were not taking place.
Anyway, it's true.
The Seahawks fans rioted and the Broncos fans didn't.
And I thought it logically should be the other way around.
How about the Coca-Cola commercial?
Hear about the Coca-Cola commercial in the Super Bowl?
The Coca-Cola commercial, and it says here, there's even an AP story, landed in the proverbial hot seat.
Not for being lewd, though.
The commercial showed Americans of different races and ethnicities singing America the Beautiful in a variety of different languages.
But not English.
After it aired, it says here, many people took to various social networking sites to express their outrage at the song being performed in any language other than English.
Now, I got to take back everything I said about, because I warned you, not warned you, I urged you to watch these commercials.
You'll get a good handle on the post of the country.
It's up to these advertisers to know how to reach these people to accomplish whatever they want, be it brand enlargement or brand identification reinforcement or the actual sale of product that they can track that day.
I mean, ultimately, every advertisement is designed to sell product, but some are results-oriented.
They want to start tracking it immediately.
Others just brand ID, brand recognition.
There's any number of different reasons, but whatever the reason, with as much time as these advertisers have and as much money as they've committed to it, you figure they got the best people on the campaign, whatever it is, going to be run.
And so Coca-Cola comes up.
If you think the best way, if you are convinced that the best way to sell Coca-Cola to Americans is to sing America the Beautiful in multiple languages, then why don't you produce the product with labels printed in 10 different languages?
Every market gets 10 different label versions of Coke.
You got 10 Diet Coke labels, 10 more for Sprite, and so on.
And if you run out of shelf space, just go buy more shelf space and load them up.
Is that the way to sell Coca-Cola?
Is that what?
The whole world sees the Super Bowl, yeah.
But I don't think the commercial is intended to be an international.
And I don't know which commercials, I don't think they're selling these commercials with world advertising rates.
They're selling with U.S. sponsorship in mind.
These things would be so prohibitively expensive if they were selling spots guaranteeing a world audience.
You couldn't afford it.
You wouldn't know how to measure it in the first place.
I thought maybe the Republican leadership was behind the commercial.
That's what I thought when I saw it.
I said, whoa, who got hold of this advertising campaign?
The Republican leadership's got to be doing this.
But anyway, there were only three or four ads in the Super Bowl that were rememberable.
It was the whole thing.
Just didn't seem like, you know, he used the word karma, but it seemed like everybody involved, except for the Seahawks, everybody was running at half speed, at half consciousness.
Everybody.
It was the weirdest sensation watching this.
I never got comfortable watching the whole game.
Nothing seemed right.
And I really did.
I really had visions of Rupert Murdoch being carried out of there in a stretcher and panic over the.
We'll see.
Yeah, it's nerdliest thing.
And it does line up with the Times because it doesn't feel right.
There was too much mediocrity out there.
And not commented on as mediocre.
The mediocrity was championed as excellence.
Or that at least we should accept it as excellence.
And it was, I thought it was disastrous.
Get this, folks.
Look, I came into something, ran into something over the weekend.
I want to run by you very soon here.
We get through with this segment here.
So I start the next segment.
Everybody's trying to figure out why in the world are the Republicans acting suicidal with this amnesty business.
Everybody.
It doesn't make sense no matter how you slice it unless the Republicans are trying to damage themselves.
That's the only way it makes sense.
The only way a Republican push for amnesty and immediate citizenship and all that makes any sense is if, for example, they don't like the Tea Party base and they're going to do anything they can to anger them and get rid of them.
So I ran across a theory that's being bandied out out there, and I'm going to run it by you just to show you how wacko this is getting.
One of the theories to explain what the Republicans are doing is they are nervous at the possibility, nervous at the prospect of winning the midterms in November in a landslide.
They don't want to win that big.
There's too much pressure involved winning that big.
So they're doing amnesty to anger a lot of their own voters to stay home so that they win narrowly and do not have a huge mandate.
And at the same time, they are trying to win an election without the Tea Party to demonstrate that it can be done.
That is a theory I ran into.
Now, part of that theory makes some sense, but I have never heard, and I don't know how you would do it, in politics, in an election, of structuring things so that you barely win it.
Don't know how you would go about doing that.
There are too many variables.
We'll be back.
Sit tight.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
I'm getting email.
Rush, why are you holding back?
You don't worry about offending people.
Here's the thing.
This is a football game.
We're not talking about issues and parties and things that dramatically affect people's lives and the status of the country here.
And I don't, I just, I don't want to call people out individually.
The best I can tell you is I thought the whole thing was like everybody involved was at 50% consciousness or 60%.
It was not even a good game.
It wasn't a fun game to watch.
And this is, I love good defensive football.
Don't misunderstand.
This game was filled with mistake after mistake after mistake after incompetence after incompetence after incompetence.
And there were no adjustments made.
It was just, it was, it was, that's why I said I don't want to take anything away from the Seahawks because they may be the primary reason why the Broncos just didn't look like they were even there.
I think the game was so bad that the Fox TV crew didn't quite know how to deal with it because they can't sit there and say, that's bad.
This is horrible.
They paid gazillions of dollars to televise this thing.
And they have to sit there and pump up their partner, the NFL, so they can't sit there.
So they had to try to cover for it, and they did it.
I mean, how do you build up something that has nothing redeemable in it?
Or very little other than to focus on the defensive players, which that game, the MVP, nothing against the MVP.
I mean, did you see the 9-11 truther that hijacked the MVP press conference?
Some 9-11 truther from Brooklyn storms.
Think about the security of this.
You've got more security at this Super Bowl than at any event in New York in recent years, or at least as much.
And the minute the MVP begins his press conference, some 9-11 truther comes out camera left, takes over the microphone, grabs it with his hand, and for five or six seconds starts mouthing the fact the government blew up the buildings.
9-11 was government run.
Look into it.
And finally, security came and dragged the guy away.
And the MVP's standing there looking, oh, gee, what is this?
I need some help.
I need some help up here.
Who's a security firm here?
Wile E. Coyote?
With equipment bought from the Acme Company?
I mean, I was just, I don't know.
I've got, I just, it's just, I was just disappointed.
As a fan, I was just disappointed In this, uh, in the game.
Just what's what what cold weather thing is this?
Oh, well, of course they do because they dodged a bullet.
They got paralyzing snow in New York today, 12 hours difference, and they'd be playing the game and that stuff.
Of course, the cold weather towns now won the Super Bowl.
I think it's a mistake.
I think the cold weather put even Super Bowl is not supposed to be played in temperatures below 50.
That was one of the age-old NFL rules.
Super Bowl game by rule, they had to blow that rule out, cannot occur in a place where the average temperature dips below 50 on the day of the game.
That's a law, the NFL law.
And of course, they broomed that because they had to pay off the stadium.
I mean, that's the deal.
That's how you assign Super Bowls anymore.
Get a new stadium, legal come in, play the game there, help you retire the debt or introduce it.
Whatever, that's fine.
It's their business.
But this will just look at the overnight ratings, and we'll see what happened.
We'll look at the second half.
I bet you we're going to be able to watch the bleed off of the viewing audience.
Now, we had a soundbite here.
Let me get on to other things here, folks, because I don't want to be a downer myself.
See, I'm going to tell you, I live in mortal fear that you someday will think of this radio show the way I was feeling watching that game last night, like everybody was phoning it in.
That is why I come in here and every day strive to be better than the day before, meet and surpass your expectations.
Never, ever phone it in.
I live in mortal fear that you will have an attitude like I did about what I was watching last night.
I never, ever want that to happen.
Maybe that's why it's affecting me this way.
It's a little personal to me.
Anyway, last Friday, I had in a soundbite roster a bite from Nancy Pelosi on Jon Stewart's show that I didn't get to.
And I really should have.
Because it's, folks, it says everything we need to know about these people.
Nancy Pelosi goes on the daily show, and Jon Stewart is asking her question after question after question.
And she says, I don't know.
I don't know.
He can't believe it.
You've got to understand now to set this up.
Pelosi is a goddess to people on the left.
And people on the left look at their leftist politicians as the smartest, the most competent.
They know everything.
They know more than anybody could possibly know.
When things go wrong, that's on purpose.
That's how smart they are.
They're doing things wrong on purpose to set up the opposition to fall for tricks and ruses.
They have so much blind faith that when they are confronted with the reality of the primarily brain-dead status of your average leftist, they don't know what to do with it.
And that could accurately describe Jon Stewart interviewing Pelosi.
It was actually Thursday night on the daily show.
And just one bite here that I want to play to give you an example.
Stewart says, okay, so we're going to set up a healthcare website that is an exchange, and people are going to come to it.
Why is it so hard to get a company to execute that competently?
Why can't you set up a website?
Same question everybody else is asking.
You have three years, you have access to the best and brightest, but you don't need access to the best and brightest because you are the best and brightest.
You Democrats, you liberals, you're the cream of the cream.
You're the creme to the crop.
You know it all.
You're smarter than why can't you set up a website that works?
I don't know.
And as one who works very hard.
No, and that's my question.
Let me get the House Minority Leader here.
I can ask her.
Hold on.
Wait, what do you mean you don't know?
How do you not know?
Well, it's not my responsibility.
Now, I don't know why the website doesn't work.
I don't know why Obamacare isn't working.
It isn't my responsibility.
Former Speaker of the House, current leader of the Democrats in the House.
And I think this is a perfect jumping off point.
I think this little soundbite that took all of 14 seconds, that little soundbite is a perfect jumping off point to illustrate for low-information voters and everybody what an incredible overreach the federal government has undertaken here.
Remember, this is the woman, Nancy Pelosi, who, when asked what was in the 2,200 pages of Obamacare, said, we have to pass it to find out what's in it.
What is that?
We have to pass it to find out what's in it.
That exemplifies the arrogance or the stupidity of tearing apart a system.
We had a healthcare system that insured 85% of the nation.
And we tore that apart in order to supposedly ensure the 15% that weren't covered.
30 million is what the number is, so I'm breaking down the percentages.
We had a system where 85% of the nation had insurance.
They were covered.
And that was deemed unfair.
That was by people like Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama and every other Democrat.
That wasn't fair.
That was not good social justice.
That was immoral because there were 15% who were not covered.
So we tore up a system that covered 85% of the nation.
And let's not forget that at the ER, everybody is covered.
By law, everybody is covered.
Illegals to boot.
Everybody's covered at the ER.
So we tear up a system, best system in the world.
And in tearing it up, we have people like Pelosi.
She was joining Obama, promising people, if you like your doctor, you're going to have to have no problem keeping your doctor.
If you like your insurance plan, you're going to be able to keep it.
They were telling us your premiums are going to come down $2,500.
We had a system that was insuring and taking care of 85% of the nation, but that was unfair.
So we tore it apart to cover and be fair with the 15% who weren't covered.
This is a classic example of the supposed big idea Being jammed through without thinking it through and then incompetently executing it with a cast of amateurs whose only qualification was their good intentions, supposedly.
Their only qualification was they were good people.
Their only qualification, the only reason we should let them do this, because the normal healthcare system, the doctors, the hospitals, the nurses, the insurance companies, they were practically criminals.
They were stealing, cheating, lying, the private sector.
We couldn't depend on them.
No, they were covering 85%, treating, caring for 85% of the country.
But no, we couldn't trust them.
We couldn't rely on them because the private sector, that's where all the greed and the selfishness and the unfairness is.
And so the people who did it, who said we're going to fix it, their only qualification was their supposedly larger hearts, which permitted them to care more, which permitted them to have more compassion, and which gave great weight to their great intentions.
And so what we end up with is, like every other such plan, where these people in the public sector with no practical, real life experience in the area they seek to fix get in there utterly incompetent, with a cast of amateurs, not knowing what they're doing, all the while thinking they know more than everybody else.
This is the epitome of big government, thinking they have all the answers when most of them have never run anything in their lives except a campaign, and most of them hire that out to campaign consultants.
So what is happening here, on the upside to all this, is that Americans now seem to recognize we'll give the polling data if you, if you choose to believe it.
Americans now seem to recognize what Reagan articulated decades ago, that government is not the solution, it is the problem.
So now Obama's lies are their only answer whenever there is a why isn't it working?
Whatever it is?
Because none of it is.
Why isn't a website working?
Why isn't my data secure why?
Why do I have to prove I have insurance, I signed up?
Why, what?
None of it is working.
Four out of five enrollees we still know the exact number are being subsidized.
I mean, not even the correct demo is signing up for this thing.
The only answer we get is Obama's lies, or Pelosi's, I don't know.
It's not my responsibility.
This little answer of hers just stunning.
They foisted this thing on us, they played dirty politics to foist this thing on us and they want control of us with this.
And now it's not their responsibility.
Take a break, we'll be back.
Sit tight, don't go away, I don't know.
It's not my responsibility.
After all of this, and by the way, when she says that to Jon Stewart, she's home.
I mean, she's at a place where she's got a friendly.
She's not expecting any confrontation there.
I mean, she's going to take a night off.
Okay, I'm going to do an interview with Jon Stewart.
Oh, fine.
I got a friend.
I got a buddy.
We'll be cool.
I don't really know.
So she felt totally free to be entirely honest.
I don't know.
It isn't my responsibility.
I'll tell you what that else indicates.
It indicates this is worse than we know.
If it is so bad that Pelosi can't even manage a sentence that talks about getting it fixed, hey, we're on track.
Yeah, we've had some problems, but it's on track to be.
She couldn't even do that.
It's got to be worse than we know.
Here is Matthew Mills was the 9-11 truther that interrupted the MVP press conference with the MVP Malcolm Smith of the Seattle Seahawks.
And here is, this just, this runs my ear real quick.
Nine seconds this guy took.
But it would have envisioned this.
You've got a crowded, no doubt overheated, small little area in this giant stadium where 10 to 20, 30 media people in there.
And the MVP still all decked out in winter gear, even though it's not called for.
Everybody's sweating themselves crazy.
It's got to be very close in there.
And he's getting ready to answer questions.
And out of the blue, from the left on your TV screen, pops up the 9-11 truther who looked like a rabid member of Occupy America.
Investigate 9-11.
A 9-11 was perpetrated by people within our own government.
All right.
Is everybody all right?
Check his press pass.
That was the MVP.
That was Malcolm Smith, who lightened it up a little bit with his reaction.
Which, okay, rush freedom of speech.
Guy can run in there and say whatever he wants.
Oh, yeah, he can.
But where is the security?
How many people were paid?
How much security do they have for this event?
And this guy obviously got an immediate press pass.
He had to get in that way.
Anyway, got a brief time out here, my friends.
Sit tight.
We'll come back, brief break at the top, and continue right on before you know it.
I'll tell you something else.
They're going to get your phone calls in, but I'm going to build on this.
I just wanted to tease you with the theory that I have run into explaining why the GOP leadership is pushing immigration reform is because they don't want to win in a landscape.
Apparently, the polling data is so bad for the Democrats in the midterms, and I think that's true, that the Republicans, so goes this theory, are afraid to win too big.
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